Harvey’s Vacation

 

IMAO World Headquarters

IMAO World Headquarters

On the 24th floor.

 

Basil
What are you doing in Harvey’s office?

Oppo
Stealing office supplies. If you call cash and valuables “office supplies.”

Basil
Of course I’ll have to report this.

Oppo
I don’t know if Frank reads your emails.  Wow!!  IMAO-themed soaps in Harvey’s washrooms!!  Cats, walruses, cayley graphs, cliffs, and all these other indefinable shapes . . . some swag!  Hand me that trash can.

Oh, someone asked where you were at the party today.  Where were you?

Basil
I was in the cake.

Oppo
Oh, yeah, the cake . . .  I never did give the signal for you to pop out, did I?

Come to think of it, I never told the guys to bring the cake up from the loading dock, did I?  I must have gotten distracted during the limbo contest . . .

Basil
Not much air in a cake…

Oppo
Well, there are going to be plenty more cakes from now on!  Harvey left a bundle of cash, and said it was to upgrade the High Tea department.

Basil
Could he possibly have said “the I.T. department”?

Oppo
Maybe.  So anyway, we used it for the pool party.

Basil
Oh. Where was this?

Oppo
At the pool.

Basil
The what?

Oppo
The company pool.

Basil
Where is that?

Oppo
That leaky thing on the floor above your storeroom.

Basil
I was wondering about that.

Oppo
Well, as the song says, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”

Basil
What does that mean?

Oppo
It means you should have been upstairs at the pool instead of in the basement in a cake.

Basil
I don’t play pool. I used to play at First Baptist. True story. But that was a long time ago. I don’t play anymore. I wouldn’t fit in.

Oppo
Sorry, I only caught the last four words of that; but, if Harvey calls, I’ll relay it.

Basil
I don’t do relay races either. I got a funny story about that. Back in high school…

Phone call from Harvey
*ring tone*

Oppo
Ah!  It’s Harvey.  Shall I tell him you’ll be in charge of High Teas, also, from now on?  Wonderful.  {Exits, talking on phone}

Basil
I wonder who that was?

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